Impact of scribes on emergency medicine doctors' productivity and patient throughput: multicentre randomised trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To evaluate the changes in productivity when scribes were used by emergency physicians in emergency departments in Australia and assess the effect of scribes on throughput.

Design

Randomised, multicentre clinical trial.

Setting

Five emergency departments in Victoria used Australian trained scribes during their respective trial periods. Sites were broadly representative of Australian emergency departments: public (urban, tertiary, regional referral, paediatric) and private, not for profit.

Participants

88 physicians who were permanent, salaried employees working more than one shift a week and were either emergency consultants or senior registrars in their final year of training; 12 scribes trained at one site and rotated to each study site.

Interve

SUBMITTER: Walker K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6353062 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature